Music-sheet holder.



No. 873,286 7 PATENTED DEC. 10, 1 907.

F. w. BARROWS.

MUSIG SHEET HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED APR.16.1907.

HE NORRIS PETERS 50-, wnsumcrqnr n FRANK W. BARROWS, OF CAMBRIDGE,MASSACHUSETTS;

MUSIC-SHEET HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent. 4

Application filed April 16. 1907- Serial No. 368,528.

Patented Dec. 10, 1907.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK W. BARROWS, a citizen of the United States,residing at Cambridge, in the county of Middlesex and State ofMassachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement inMusic- Sheet Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to the general style of music-sheet holdersillustrated and described in the Letters Patent of the United Statesnumbered 830,197, and granted to me September 4, 1906, and is intendedto be an improvement on the device described in the. said LettersPatent.

My present invention has for its principal object to so construct themusic sheet holder that it-will guard and protect the sheets of musicfrom rain or snow, and thus prevent injury thereto, when the 'device isbeing used in the open air, as in marches,

open-air concerts, etc.

The nature of the invention is fully described in detail below, andillustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a frontview of my improved music-sheet holder, a portion being broken off, anda number of sheets being shown in position. taken on line 22, Fig. 1,looking toward the left.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

a represents the main portion of the back of a rectangular casingprovided at its lower edge with forwardly and upwardly projecting lipsI; located on opposite sides of the center of the lower edge of saidback, and at a sufiicient distance from said center to allow space forthe flat, narrow plate d to extend centrally up against the frontsurface of the back a, as indicated in full lines in Fig. 2 and in fulland dotted lines in Fig. 1, said plate being provided at its lower endwith a rigid holder 6. The portion of the rear surface of the platebelow the back is provided with a rigid bracket 9 to whose outer end ispivoted at h a clamp is which bears against the rear side of the back.The portions a, 6., e, g, h

Fig. 2 is a cross vertical section The sheets of music n he against thefront surface of the back and that of the plate (2, and are supported bythe lips I). The left edges of the sheets are pushed against theforwardly and inwardly extending small lip p, which extends from thecentral portion of the left edge of the back, and the right edges of thesheets are provided with designating tabs 1' which extend beyond saidedges. I

From the entire length. of the upper edge of the back a there extendsforward at substantially right angles therewith a broad flange 8 whichconstitutes a flat roof, and integral with said flange is a downwardlyextending guard 25, which is preferably at right angles with the roofand may be as broad as desired,

provided it does not hide the notes on the sheets of music. This roofand guard serve to protect the music-sheets from rain or snow when thedevice is in use in the open air.

The small lip 19 is placed at the left edge of the back, and the tabs atthe right edge of the sheets, in order that the sheets may be insertedand withdrawn horizontally under the protecting roof and behind theguard. A suitable spring clamp w is secured at yto the rear side of theback, and extends forward under the lower edge of the back and upward,serving to hold the sheets of music in place as they are supported onopposite sides of the plate (1 by the lips I).

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, isv In a music-sheet holder, a back, lipsextending forward and upward from the lower edge of the back on oppositesides of the center for supporting the sheets of music, a short lipextending forward and inward from substantially the central portion ofone side edge of the back, and a roof extending forward from the upperedge of the back and adapted to rotect the music-sheets from rain orsnow.

11 testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

FRANK w. BARROWS.

-50iand 7c are not new in this invention, and are Witnesses:

constructed substantially as described and HENRY W. WILLIAMS,illustrated ifitheetters Patent above re- A. M. TAIT. ferred to. p

